Have arrived in the highlands after my first long distance driving. Has gone ok even with the torrential rain. Didn’t see much of Fort William due to massive storm. Got wine now all is good.
Now for Kirstens Birthday!
October 31, 2009
October 24, 2009
Lego Cake
Here is the cake Jen made me for my birthday, a very yummy white chocolate and raspberry cake made from lego bricks.
October 2, 2009
Linux Community
Interesting things I notice about Linux and its community and not all of them are good.
It seems Microsoft have one crazy guy called Steve Ballmer. As Linux users and developers though we have to suffer a whole army of guys just as crazy. We don’t even get the option of keeping them safely in Seattle.
One thing I noticed at Edlug talks last night is people are still venomously bashing Microsoft just because its Microsoft. For example, MS Office is a perfectly viable office suite. Open Office is not magically better because it is free or has a different menu layout. I can probably give you hundreds of cases where OO fails and MS Office gets it right (especially reqgards to speadsheets). Also downright lies about MS Office really don’t help, if your going to compare two products, please at least have used them both.
Linux advocates keep bashing on about “Freedom” well one of the freedoms I still enjoy is the ability to select an application that suits my needs. Sometimes these applications cost money, sometimes they even come from a company called Microsoft.
